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Tikhonov regularization for nonlinear problems

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Numerical Regularization for Atmospheric Inverse Problems

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Most of the inverse problems arising in atmospheric remote sensing are nonlinear. In this chapter we discuss the practical aspects of Tikhonov regularization for solving the nonlinear equation F(x) = y.

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Doicu, A., Trautmann, T., Schreier, F. (2010). Tikhonov regularization for nonlinear problems. In: Numerical Regularization for Atmospheric Inverse Problems. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05439-6_6

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